A hypothetical automated news architecture:
And a reminder about what’s at stake:
The most pressing threat to humanity in the years to come will come not from autonomous machines but from programmed people.
Though not recognized as such, extremely unreliable and flawed forms of these programmed devices, in the guise of human beings, have been around for thousands of years. Legions of soldiers marching unquestioningly to their deaths, religious cultists accepting articles of faith without doubt, individuals at the mercy of delusions and hallucinations . . . all, in retrospect, can be characterized at their most extreme moments, as behaving like what we now characterize as ‘robotic’.